Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths.
How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.
It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.